ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley: Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 24th October 2023

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Can I ask Vaughan, because you know, you weren't there the night that me and Fletch made our Turkish Delight podcast.

Cocktail.

We've got a whole podcast dedicated to that level.

The Delight's a turkey.

Cocktail.

Yeah, I don't like it.

Would you like to try that?

No thanks.

Or would you like us to dig further into the favourites box?

I reckon we dig further into the friends box.

Crunchy.

I want to try the crunchy one.

And it's kind of good because favourites is the only time of the year I ever get. Christmas is the only time of the year I ever get favourites.

Yeah.

Because it is that Christmas time.

I'm excited because it's always good to hear from listeners all over the world and see where people are listening.

Oh yeah, okay, I've found one. Bourbon, hokey pokey, it's happening.

Get those.

Now we kind of touched it on this in the big pod and we thought we'd elaborate on the little bit of pod, but at the weekend you were at the Nelson Arts Festival.

Doing my last show of the year of ailments that's been going around.

And do you know I actually forgot that I had, because Nelson Festival's done a big push for accessibility and all their works and have offered the service of having your show translated by an interpreter on stage.

And I'd forgotten, I'd said yes.

I was like, how are you, man?

That'd be awesome.

Then I got there and they're like, this is Callie.

And I was like, Callie?

Callie?

Callie?

I'm not sure.

Hello?

And then she started talking about where she was going to be on the stage.

And I was like, this is a solo show, bitch, but then she was an interpreter.

And I was like, oh my God, that's right.

Anyway, it was so fascinating because I hadn't given her, she hadn't done a lot of comedy because she was like plays and stuff.

Really?

Almost memorizing the lines away an actor would.

Wow.

And practicing it with comedy, it's like, you can give you a script, I'm not going to stick to it.

Kind of like, you remember all the COVID presses and they'd have the sign language person there and it'd be all on the fly.

Yeah.

And you'd watch them kind of a little bit delayed.

How they were listening, processing, doing the sign language a couple of seconds later, but at the same time doing the sign language, but listening for what had to happen next.

And then it was so fucking admirable.

So impressive.

And then tap out, wouldn't they?

And then they'd get started.

Yeah, I had two.

Why?

It must be exhausting.

I had two and they did little intervals and then like I had Kelly, who was quite high up there.

Yeah.

And then I'm trying to just remember the organization.

And then there was Paul, who was fresher.

Right.

And so platform interpreting NZ.

That's who it was.

Right.

So Kelly was there.

And then I was like, oh yeah, I haven't shown you anything.

She's like, it's all good.

I'll be all right.

And I was like, okay.

And then I was like, shit, the songs.

And I sing songs, two of which are very, very fast.

And the first song's like, and I was like, oh shit.

So I was like, I might just play these for you.

And she was like, great.

That'd be so helpful.

Okay.

Yeah.

Play to the music.

And she was like, all right, basically.

And cause a lot of fanny flap stuff in these songs.

Flaps, ahoy, funny, fanny flatters, raggedy labia.

I just talk about all sorts of things.

And I was like, how are they going to do this?

So with the songs, I ended up printing the lyrics.

Cause though those don't change.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was like, you can have those and got a music stand so they could do that.

And there was like Kelly's going to do the fast ones and Paul can do the slower ones

going to go on the fly.

Yeah.

And then I was like, how do you, how do you interpret tone?

Cause it's not just classic.

As I would be talking now, you could just sign it in sort of direct translation.

But some of the things in my show is like, it's all about tone or playfulness or

like a sarcastic, sarcasm or a silly thing or a saying or something I've completely made

up.

And she was like, oh, you just kind of embody it and they perform it.

And I was like, this is going to be great.

So it was like my setup on stage, the piano there and then a little lit area on the side

where they were.

Yeah.

And I was like, please like be involved.

Don't hide.

And they're like, great.

And then they had the either deaf or, you know, hard of hearing people to that side.

Yeah.

Sat there.

And then I was like, how's this going to go?

And then so I went out and I always announced myself to the stage.

So I announced them first cause they had to come out first.

Yeah.

So that then they could translate me announcing myself.

Yeah.

So then that happened and then I sung my song and I could feel Kelly next to me.

I could see your hands and I was like, this is going great.

But the song's too fast.

I couldn't stop and look.

And then shit, it was funny.

Like it was just, they just brought this whole other tone of comedy to my show because I

would do my joke.

They would get a laugh.

Yeah.

But then the audience would like quickly look to them to see how they would translate

it.

And there's Paul Bastard.

Paul just happened to keep switching out with Kelly at just the wrong moments.

He'd come out and be like, fuck this one, this next bit.

It's about paps me.

It's a violin.

And you know, I tell a story about getting this, um, some cells on my cervix, lays it

off and how I'm like vibrating on the table.

And then just, I just kept looking at them.

And then in the end, I ended up just engaging with them the whole time.

And it made it funnier.

It made it funnier.

It made it funnier.

And I would not hesitate to do it again.

Oh, wow.

That's cool.

I've never, in all my years of doing shows, never had an interpreter.

And they just.

Was there anybody there that needed it?

Yeah.

They were 10 members of the deaf community or the hard of hearing community.

Wow.

That's cool.

Yeah, I know.

So it's a real big push for that festival that they're doing this.

And they're trying to make it more common that you have interpreters in plays, shows.

And Kelly was saying, um, the first interpreter that she got to a gig,

no idea what it was.

And it was like slam poetry.

Oh, okay.

And she was like, oh fuck.

Cause it's all about rhythm and timing.

Yeah.

Words and anyway.

It was so amazing.

And just, it was so, it was so joyful.

And it's probably the best show I did.

Yeah.

Thanks to them.

What is, were there any interesting signs during the show?

I make a joke about my, um, to reveal my cards here to, uh,

I make a joke about my doctor seeing my vagina so often.

Cause of all my health things that if I ever died or I was in an accident and I needed

my body to be identified, she would be the person to do it by looking at my vagina.

She went, oh, that's Haley Sproul.

That's her.

And then the joke is, how do you know?

Well, there's only one woman.

Those raggedy labia could belong to.

Right.

So spoiler alert.

Anyway, so the moment I said that I looked across and I'm pretty sure it was Paul and

he was holding like a vulva shape like this.

But then like when like this and with his, with his face did something and then yeah,

did this like kind of like raggedy lips.

And then I would look at the people who I knew were part of the deaf community and

they were laughing their ass off.

Oh awesome.

I know.

It was so funny.

Another one was when I talk about.

When he did that sign, that could be a lot of things.

But maybe the look you said because he was like, whoa, this is the naughty version of

their face.

And like it was just amazing.

Another one was when I talked about breastfeeding and how I didn't want to be left with empty

sad sac tits.

Now it was Paul again.

And he did these like flappy fingers.

Like hands flapping.

It was just amazing.

And you were like, that's probably not the literal word for word translation.

But to bring the comedy element, they come up with it.

So cool.

Nelson.

Nelson.

And I would like next time I do a comedy show, I'll definitely try to do that wherever

I go.

Yeah.

What an experience.

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